Chapter Five: Liturgy, prayer, and our personal life
The life of prayer is our personal, conscious life in God, because everything, our being and our movement, enters into it. Our entire lives and relationships with God […]
Chapter Four: The Eucharist and the unity of believers in the church community
Who has not felt one day that the best thing in life, in the end, is the joy of friendship, pure and constant joy?
Chapter Three: Belonging to the Church through rituals
1- The importance of rituals, their principle, and their nature in the church. We belong to the church by rituals in general, that is, by a set of symbols and movements (from candles, incense, and cycles).
Chapter One: The mystery or essence of the liturgy
Introduction We do not mean liturgy as a ritual, but rather the liturgy that is beyond the rituals. Rituals, as a group of different and diverse human movements, are a valuable heritage
Individual worship and group worship
Introduction In two different places in the Gospel of Matthew, two phrases about prayer appear that seem to contradict each other. In the Sermon on the Mount
In order to better understand the Divine Liturgy
Introduction These pages are not a new translation of the Divine Liturgy service written by Saint John Chrysostom. Nor is it a study for this service
14:14-22 – Feeding more than five thousand people
Text: 14 When Jesus went out, he saw a large crowd, and he had compassion on them and healed their sick. 15 And when evening came, his disciples came to him, saying, “The place
Introducing the child to church
It is customary in our church for a mother to come with her child forty days after his birth, so that he can enter with her into the church where
Miracles and reality
What is a miracle and how should it be dealt with? We will try to define the miracle from the point of view of science.
Miracles in the Orthodox concept
The true concept of a miracle is that it is a “sign” that can only be perceived by faith. A miracle has two aspects: a visible aspect: the event that every human being can see.
Participate in the Mass
In a church where I served in the past, I used to count that the attendance on Sunday was between 3 and 8% out of the number of the parish. in
Great Holy Week
The Great and Holy Week, with all its events and meanings, forms a tightly interconnected unit. The first three days remind us of the purpose of the Lenten journey we have taken